By all accounts Edinburgh shot themselves in the foot against Ospreys. Cockerill won't accept back to back performances of that calibre and his team know it. I expect a very tight game. Hopefully we can edge it.

Edinburgh will be another level up, Hamish Watson will have a field day at the breakdown.

Be in no doubt we squeaked home against a scarlets side with something like 16+ injuries. Ulster did look improved but I fear standard across the board is a hole new level up compared to last year. Need to start capitalising of all these line breaks and offloads.

Billy didn't get many gaps but he is always looking and seems willing to have a go.Most disappointing last week was when they went down to 14 in the last 10 mins, then had a player on the ground injured, and we still couldn't convert a massive overlap.

1) We had a backline that barely know each other2) Three on debut3) there were good signs, particularly in the first half .......... but admittedly no pay off4) If you want to be positive, defensively, a new backline managed to restricted the best backline in Europe to a single try

I saw a good bit of Ospreys & Embra, I saw nothing that was worrying.

Embra will be just as tough a game but I see no reason not to expect Ulster to up things with a little of the rust shaken off in match one. However, Nordi will be playing and that my dears will improve the breakdown for starters.

We are not brill, we will not win the league, but we will win a lot of games at home, It should not be forgotten that a team of raw recruits and the few ould hands still fit scored a TBP win on Embras own lawn just 4 months or so ago.

Reasons to be fearful ............. ....beats me.

Support the team and coaching staff. Forget the rest,BUT NEVER MOVE ON.

FIRFU - FU'CK YOU ONE AND ALL, CAVING IN TO SPONSORS, SACKING THE INNOCENT FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE, SHAMEFUL BASTA'RDS. YOU'VE LOST MY SUPPORT & I HOPE MORE ULSTERMEN & WOMEN

Definitely this. Lots of action with little penetration last Saturday. Hope Addison is fit as he looked the most likely to make something happen

Speight also looked capable of exploiting a gap.

Exploiting gaps isn't your problem; creating the gaps is.You need to stretch defences more, so that not only will a gap appear, but you are able to attack it in a structured way; not just an individual squeezing through and hoping someone is on his shoulder for the hail Mary offload.